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RE: cp error -- oh the great sanity of *nix tools?!?


I was interested in finding the message Larry mentions in the archives,
so I tried to search the archives, but I wasn't able to do it right.
I tried searching for 

+cp +bug
+bug +cp
+bug +faylor
+bug +faylor +cp
+bug +faylor cp

I kept getting
Keyword "+cp" was not found in our database.

With the search terms-
+bug +faylor cp 

The 22nd match was Re: Bug/Help on cp and mv using 1.3.2 from Christopher
Faylor.
The score was 53, match was 2. This was more what I was looking for.

I am trying to use the archives more and learning to help myself-
I don't understand why +cp didn't work as a search term.
Is there somewhere else this message should go?

Thanks,
Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall@rfk.com]
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 3:47 PM
To: Soren Andersen; cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cp error -- oh the great sanity of *nix tools?!?


At 03:29 PM 6/25/2001, Soren Andersen wrote:
>It IS still  `cp' s fault, too. The message is cp's utterly unhelpful and
>misleading way of telling me that the source files named as command
>parameters don't exist -- and what the heck is THAT? That's a bona-fide BUG
>if ever I was bitten by one. I am really astonished at this, in GNU
>software.


Would this be the same bug in cp that Chris Faylor announced a fix for last 
week?


Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX


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